I’ve seen Wilcoat leasta dozen times now going back to their coming-out gig at SXSW in 1995, and this was one of my favorites (click here if you haven’t seenmy review here).The setting/circumstances had a lot to do with it. You haven’t seen Wilco until you’ve seen them on a lake (THE lake!) in tassel caps with a mist blowing over the stage and a rustic city skyline behind them. But the setlist was also an interesting one, basically a split between the Wilco of today and, in the first encore, the Wilco of yesterday. “Too Far Apart” (off “A.M.”) was a fun little nugget dropped in the middle, too.

Please let us know what you thought of the show. Weather aside (how many of you from the Cities got caught off guard by the chill?), what did you think of Bayfront Festival Park? And those of you planning to make the Oct. 11 date at Northrop Auditorium, what kind of show are you hoping for?

Wilco’s set list: Either Way / You Are My Face / I Am Trying to Break Your Heart / Handshake Drugs / Pot Kettle Black / War on War / Side With the Seeds / Shot in the Arm / Impossible Germany / Hummingbird / Jesus Etc. / Too Far Apart / Walken / I’m the Man Who Loves You

Encore 1: California Stars (w/ Al & Mimi of Low) / Hesitating Beauty / Red-Eyed & Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century) / I’m Always in Love / Outta Mind (Outta Site) Encore 2: Misunderstood / Heavy Metal Drummer / Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Low made a fine hometown showing. The wind blowing in to their microphones and the swaying light rigs overhead made their songs seem extra chilly.

Low’s set list: One More Reason to Forget (w/ Nels Cline on lap-guitar) /Point of Disgust/ Cue the Strings / In Silence / Dragonfly / Starfire / Murderer / Silver Rider / When I Go Deaf

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